(2022-12-08, 09:29)iqbd Wrote: Thanks for the info. I'll keep digging around. I'll let you know if I figure something out. I'll also monitor for the AKL changes, as a custom scraper + launcher for AKL is probably the right solution for me, since that's effectively what I'm doing.

(2022-12-09, 12:12)chrisism Wrote:

(2022-12-07, 12:28)Juppstein Wrote: Here's the log. Sequence was as follows:

• Open Kodi
  
• go to game library
  
• remove existing launcher
  
• create new launcher with retroart addon
  
• enter retroarch path /usr/games/
  
• enter config directory /home/kodi/.config/retroarch/retroarch.cfg
  
• enter core directory /home/kodi/.config/retroarch/cores/puae_libretro.so
  
• leave arguments field empty
  
• enter game library and start game 
  

https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/CkbqkCQxmN/

I have updated the RC in the beta repository again. Could you try to set the retroarch path to the actual executable, not the directory. Alternative solution is to set the retroarch path to a shell script that does the actual execution. A nice solution with shell script on for example Librelec can be found in this post by @Wintermute0110, it is for AEL but since the basic approach is the same it might be something.
Notice that AKL will execute the script with the following arguments from your example: '-L "/home/kodi/.config/retroarch/cores/puae_libretro.so"', '-c "/home/kodi/.config/retroarch/retroarch.cfg"', '"/<path-to-rom>"'. First try setting the path to the executable (retroarch) though, see if that works.
I'll have to set up a linux solution for kodi / retroarch myself to test it. Currently only have android and windows test environments working, so I dont have a quick solution.

(2022-12-09, 12:17)chrisism Wrote:

(2022-12-07, 21:11)Juppstein Wrote: By the way, is it normal that NeoGeo MVS games dont get their name changed after they've been scraped with somethine like Screenscraper? They retain the name of the zip file here.

No it should actually apply the scraped title. Did you check the 'Ignore scraped titles' parameter when scraping? That might be a cause.
Do notice that currently AKL will only overwrite existing scraped metadata if the 'Overwrite existing files' parameter is on. I am going to make a separate flag for overwriting metadata, but for now this parameter applies to both assets as well as metadata.

Quote:022-12-13 08:56:36.777 T:3828     INFO <general>: Skipped 2 duplicate messages..
2022-12-13 08:56:36.777 T:3828     INFO <general>: initializing python engine.
2022-12-13 08:56:37.322 T:3828     INFO <general>: CPythonInvoker(106, /home/kodi/.kodi/addons/plugin.program.akl/addon.py): script successfully run
2022-12-13 08:56:37.350 T:3828     INFO <general>: Python interpreter stopped
2022-12-13 08:56:37.422 T:2325     INFO <general>: [plugin.program.akl] resources.lib.services: {"category_id":"7087284b38a37fc6ecd5b013d0f21e5d"}
2022-12-13 08:56:39.962 T:2325    ERROR <general>: [plugin.program.akl] resources.lib.repositories: type: <class 'TypeError'> value: object of type 'int' has no len()
2022-12-13 08:56:39.962 T:2325    FATAL <general>: [plugin.program.akl] resources.lib.commands.mediator: Failure processing command "DELETE_CATEGORY"
                                                   Traceback (most recent call last):
                                                     File "/home/kodi/.kodi/addons/plugin.program.akl/resources/lib/commands/mediator.py", line 34, in sync_cmd
                                                       return a_command(args)
                                                     File "/home/kodi/.kodi/addons/plugin.program.akl/resources/lib/commands/category_commands.py", line 226, in cmd_category_delete
                                                       if category.has_items():
                                                     File "/home/kodi/.kodi/addons/plugin.program.akl/resources/lib/domain.py", line 867, in has_items
                                                       return len(self.num_romcollections()) > 0 or len(self.num_categories()) > 0
                                                   TypeError: object of type 'int' has no len()

I tried to create a bug report on github but saw that feature is not activated on the repo.
 

(2022-12-13, 10:10)Juppstein Wrote: Thanks, in that case I'll try around a bit to see where the error comes from. The files are definitively zip files and retroarch is able to play them perfectly. We'll see. 

By the way, I am not able to delete categories in AKL. Whenever I try it throws an error. This is from the log (using AKL from your repo, updated yesterday evening):

Quote:022-12-13 08:56:36.777 T:3828     INFO <general>: Skipped 2 duplicate messages..
2022-12-13 08:56:36.777 T:3828     INFO <general>: initializing python engine.
2022-12-13 08:56:37.322 T:3828     INFO <general>: CPythonInvoker(106, /home/kodi/.kodi/addons/plugin.program.akl/addon.py): script successfully run
2022-12-13 08:56:37.350 T:3828     INFO <general>: Python interpreter stopped
2022-12-13 08:56:37.422 T:2325     INFO <general>: [plugin.program.akl] resources.lib.services: {"category_id":"7087284b38a37fc6ecd5b013d0f21e5d"}
2022-12-13 08:56:39.962 T:2325    ERROR <general>: [plugin.program.akl] resources.lib.repositories: type: <class 'TypeError'> value: object of type 'int' has no len()
2022-12-13 08:56:39.962 T:2325    FATAL <general>: [plugin.program.akl] resources.lib.commands.mediator: Failure processing command "DELETE_CATEGORY"
                                                   Traceback (most recent call last):
                                                     File "/home/kodi/.kodi/addons/plugin.program.akl/resources/lib/commands/mediator.py", line 34, in sync_cmd
                                                       return a_command(args)
                                                     File "/home/kodi/.kodi/addons/plugin.program.akl/resources/lib/commands/category_commands.py", line 226, in cmd_category_delete
                                                       if category.has_items():
                                                     File "/home/kodi/.kodi/addons/plugin.program.akl/resources/lib/domain.py", line 867, in has_items
                                                       return len(self.num_romcollections()) > 0 or len(self.num_categories()) > 0
                                                   TypeError: object of type 'int' has no len()

I tried to create a bug report on github but saw that feature is not activated on the repo.

(2022-12-17, 20:55)mousex110 Wrote: (.venv) C:\Users\Mouse\Downloads\script.akl.nvgamestream-main\script.akl.nvgamestream-main>python ./resources/tools/create_certificates.py C:\Users\Mouse\Desktop
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\Mouse\Downloads\script.akl.nvgamestream-main\script.akl.nvgamestream-main\resources\tools\create_certificates.py", line 19, in <module>
    from akl.utils import io
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'akl'

(.venv) C:\Users\Mouse\Downloads\script.akl.nvgamestream-main\script.akl.nvgamestream-main>pip install -r requirements.txt
ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement kodi.tools==1.1.0 (from versions: none)
ERROR: No matching distribution found for kodi.tools==1.1.0


I tried in both the plugin github zip and the main AKL zip. both were extracted

(2022-12-20, 00:52)mousex110 Wrote: Sorry to spam your thread, ignore 2 posts above. I got the pip.ini file sorted and working. "pip install -r requirements.txt" now fully completes. "python ./resources/tools/create_certificates.py c:\games\gamestream\" starts to run but stops at

(.venv) C:\Users\Mouse\Desktop\script.akl.nvgamestream-main\script.akl.nvgamestream-main>python ./resources/tools/create_certificates.py C:\Users\Mouse\Desktop\certs
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\Mouse\Desktop\script.akl.nvgamestream-main\script.akl.nvgamestream-main\resources\tools\create_certificates.py", line 21, in <module>
    from resources.lib import crypto
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'resources.lib'